Luckily we only worked in the morning today, because heavy rain started from midday. As this was already apparent early in the morning, Rudi and I decided that we wouldn't even start with the grouting, but first of all clean an overflowing gutter in the supply building of the youth meeting center. It turned out that the gutter was full of dead leaves. In addition, it did not have enough slope to let the rainwater run down to the downspout. When the gutter was cleaned, the water ran down the outside of the downpipe. Because the sewer pipes in the ground are probably also clogged, so that the water is standing in the downpipe. Looking around, I noticed that the gutters of the other accommodation bungalows were clogged as well. We therefore extended our cleaning work to all buildings. Everywhere the leaves of the whole year were still in there. Many were already rusted through and nowhere did the water drain properly.
During this voluntary work assignment at the German war cemetery Ysselsteyn, we participants are not accommodated in a hotel but in the accommodation of the associated youth meeting center. Autumn has also arrived in Holland and the night was a bit colder than I would have liked. In the morning, the work to be done in the coming week was presented: branches and twigs that the storms had carried there are to be cleared away from the cemetery.
Heute ist der Tag der Abschlusszeremonie auf dem deutschen Soldatenfriedhof von Klaipėda/Memel. Es wird aber auch ein Tag der Kontroverse werden.
Heute war der letzte Arbeitstag auf dem Soldatenfriedhof in Klaipeda/Memel. Ich begann morgens gleich im Wald Sand zu sieben, denn ich wollte noch ein Fundament betonieren für das Grabfeld der 140 umgebetteten Gefallenen. Damit beschäftigte ich mich fast bis zum Mittagessen, dann ging mir die Arbeit aus.